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Game of Thrones Star Joins Alex Proyas’ Gods of Egypt

The Kingslayer isn’t the likeliest bet to sit atop the Iron Throne of Westeros when all is said and done on Game of Thrones, but becoming an Egyptian God isn’t a bad consolation prize.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays the charismatic and arrogant swordsman Jaime Lannister on hit HBO drama, has landed the lead in Gods of Egypt. Directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City and I, Robot) for Summit Entertainment, it’s described as an “epic fantasy movie” set amongst the “great pyramids and sphinxes” of ancient Egypt.

According to The Wrap, Coster-Waldau would star in Gods of Egypt as Horus, the god of the sky. He teams up with Hathor, the goddess of love, as well as a human thief, on a quest to avenge the death of his father Osiris.

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White people…

Elizabeth Freeman

So did the casting crew even call up Idris Elba?

Alex H

To play devils advocate here, casting Elba isn’t really any more congruous than casting Coster-Waldau, the former’s ancestral Ghana/Sierra Leone being on a similar scale of distance from Egypt as the latter’s native Denmark, equally as much as they are both pretty equidistant from an Egyptian complexion.

If you are going to cast an Egyptian role, there will be some good actors of North African or Arabic origin somewhere about if you look for them…

Jimmy Russell

This is a disgrace, white people should not be playing black/african characters, I bet the director is a nazi or some sort of german